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Weekly Home Fun for the week of 12/4/17
Reading Unit: Reading to Learn -Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures Writing Unit:The Art of Information Writing
Math: Module 3: Multiplication & Division (new unit)
Parent Corner:● Reminder: The reading students do for social studies and science homework can count for the
45 minutes of reading homework time.Monday
Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.
Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:
- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.
Writing Look at the informational writing checklist. Choose one thing you will focus on tonight.
Tonight I will focus on __________________. (Write this focus here AND on the top of your notebook page so when I look at your writing notebook I know what you were working on).
Now write a nonfiction entry (must be at least a page) in which you try your focus.
Math Problem
Solving
Complete the Monday Math Problem Solving Sheet.
Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.
Social
Studies
In Studies Weekly Week 6, read the cover article, “World Cultures and Civilizations.” As you read, annotate your ideas and questions on the page.
What is the different between a civilization and a culture? Answer the question in your own words first, then use details from the text to support your answer. (One detail about civilization, one about culture). There are more lines on the next page.
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Tuesday
Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.
Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:
- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.
Writing Look at the informational writing checklist. Choose one thing you will focus on tonight.
Tonight I will focus on __________________. (Write this focus here AND on the top of your notebook page so when I look at your writing notebook I know what you were working on).
Now write a nonfiction entry (must be at least a page) in which you try your focus. You can also choose to add more to the entry you wrote last night (but write today’s date to show where you are starting the entry today).
Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.
Complete KEMS workbook (the blue one) pages S44 and S45.Social
Studies
In Studies Weekly, read the introduction to the article “Ancient Civilizations” on pages 2 and 3 (everything before #1). As you read, annotate your ideas and questions. Circle any words you don’t know- as long as you understand the idea of the sentence you don’t need to understand every word.
Answer the question on the next page.
How does the map support the idea being taught in the introduction? Use one detail from the text to connect to a detail on the map.
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Wednesday
Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.
Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:
- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.
Writing Tonight, write an informational piece in your writer's notebook about another topic you know a lot about. You could also choose to add some chapters to the topic you wrote about last night.
Select one item from the Information Writing Checklist to focus on in your writing tonight. You might have the same focus as Monday or Tuesday. Or if you think you did that well, you could choose something else from the checklist.
Tonight I will focus on __________________. (Write this focus on the top of your notebook page so when I look at your writing notebook I know what you were working on).
Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.
Complete KEMS workbook page S55. Show your work (Either mark the place value that helps you round or use a number line).
Social Studies
In Studies Weekly, complete the article “Ancient Civilizations” on page 3. Pay special attention to #5 since we are learning about China. Annotate your ideas and questions as you
read.
How was the Shang civilization similar to civilizations today? How were they different? Answer each question, then use one detail to show the similarity and one to show the difference.
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Thursday
Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.
Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:
- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.
Writing Select one item from the Information Writing Checklist to focus on in your writing tonight. You might have the same focus as something you’ve been working on or you could choose something new from the checklist.
Tonight I will focus on __________________. (Write this focus on the top of your notebook page so when I look at your writing notebook I know what you were working on).
Write at least a page, using all that you know about information writing.
Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.
Complete KEMS workbook page S203.
Science Tonight you will be reading in Science Weekly Week 7. On pages 2 and 3, read the article, “Force.” As you read, annotate your ideas and questions.
Fill in the chart with a text detail that tells something you learned about each subtopic.
Motion
Power
Mass
Friction
Friday
Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.
Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:
- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.
Writing Tonight you choose what you’d like to write about in your writer’s notebook (any genre, you could even write a comic book story). Here’s your checklist for what you write:
● It should be YOUR writing, not copied from something else.● It should be at least a page or a page and a half.● You should use paragraphs, periods, and capital letters.● It should be WRITING, not DRAWINGS
Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.
Write a word problem that relates to a topic we have learned about so far this year
(multiplication, division, elapsed time, measurement, rounding, adding and subtracting with regrouping).
After you write the problem, solve it! If you realize you can’t solve it, go back and revise your problem to put in the necessary information.
My Problem:
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Solve your problem:
Science In Science Studies Weekly, read the article “Sir Isaac Newton” on page 3. Annotate your ideas and questions.
Why did the author most likely decide to include an article about Sir Isaac Newton in a magazine about force? Use details from the text to explain your answer. (Lines are on the next page)
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